Not so long ago I found myself in characteristically pugnacious discussion with a senior human rights figure. The issue was privacy. Her view was that there was an innate and largely unchanging human need for privacy. My view was that privacy was a culturally determined concept. Think of those open multiseated Roman latrines in Pompeii, and imagine having one installed at work. The specific point was whether there was a generational difference in attitudes towards privacy, partly as a consequence of interact social networking. I thought that there was. As a teenager I told my parents absolutely nothing and the world little more. Some girls of that era might be photographed bare-breasted at a rock festival, but, on the whole, once we left through the front door, we disappeared from sight.
My children--Generation Y, rather than the Generation X-ers who make most of the current fuss about privacy--seem unworried by their mother’s capacity to track them and their social
A. he agrees with the opinion of the senior human rights person
B. he holds that human need for privacy is universal and will never be changing
C. he regards that the concept of privacy should also be viewed historically
D. he thinks that the upholding of privacy should be the first and foremost issue
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President Bush’s re-election already has resulted in more funds for one of the election’s pivotal "moral values" issues--abstinence education.
Congress last weekend included more than $131 million for abstinence programs in its $ 388 billion spending bill.
This represents an increase of $ 30 million for programs that teach middle- and high-school youths that sexual abstinence until marriage is the best choice.
The new funding is far less than the $100 million Mr. Bush requested, but it marks a "record level of funding", said leaders of the National Abstinence Clearinghouse in Sioux Falls, S. D..
Public debates about the merits of teaching abstinence-until-marriage versus abstinence -plus-contraception are likely to continue: A national evaluation of abstinence-until- marriage programs has been delayed, with a final report not expected until 2006, said a spokesman for the Department of Health and
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B. report.
C. commentary.
D. book.
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